Really love this image! Glad you found it, and thanks for sharing!
great work, lovely mood.
Beautiful piece.
Really like this
Hey guys! Thanks so much for all the comments Iâm glad you liked the last illustration I made. In fact, I managed to take another âphotoâ; of the creature before it saw me and went away, here it is:
Also here is a bit of a breakdown on how I made this dude and the illustration process in Photoshop. hope you guys find it useful
The model comes from a dynamesh sphere (the antlers are zspheres turned into skin and âdynameshedâ it), very simple modeling. The only thing it might be worth mentioning is that the stylising of the antlers was done with the Dam_standard brush, Inflate and Standard brush.
The texture of the skin is just polypaint and I used the Standard brush with colour spray and a doted alpha to generate variants of colour and to grow the fibermesh with that colour information.
I masked portions of the body and face to create separate subtools with fibermesh to make it more manageable and to have more control of the length and âflowâ of the fibers.
The render was done with BPR and I rendered 4 passes plus mask, shadows, AO and zdepth. The compositing of the character is very simple too, here it is:
NOTE: I took these screenshots from the process of the first illustration. For the second one (the one in this post), the compositing is exactly the same, but the shadow pass is stronger and I got rid of the Key light altogether.
For the backgrounds and composition, I wanted a lot of depth of field and I knew I was going to blur things out, so I didnât spend too much time detailing things, instead, I tried to get the right shapes for the overall composition, to help guide the eyes of the viewer to the character. Here are a couple of GIFs to show a bit of the process:
Lost creatures âshot 1â
Lost creatures âshot 2â
Let me know your thoughts!
happy Easter!
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I love the atmosphere, color, and depth in this image! After seeing the process GIF of the winter scene, Iâd like to see that one full size, too.
edit: And of course, I made my original reply before I saw that you already posted the winter image. So, never mind!
Oh, and thank you for sharing some of your tips. I almost love the work behind the process more than the finished image itself.
Amazing! Nice composition, depth of field and lighting. thanks for sharing your workflow. Happy Easter.
I really like this character. Thanks for sharing and the very nice breakdown of how you made it!
the process very interesting, thanks for sharing the tutorial, you always learn something:
Thanks for the interesting breakdown. Love the image.
werent you scared when you met it in the woods? 
it looks sooo terrifying!
Thanks for sharing!
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Congrats on top row!
stunning result! really nice final piece!
WowâŠthis is amazing!
thatâs really nice!
Thats looking cool, I liked the process
ooooooh man!!! this looks amazing 
i really love the mood, the atmosphere⊠aaaah congratulations for such a lovely piece so much feeling in it!! ahahah cheers!
when i saw the image on the top row i thought it was a cute small creature, literally went âwhoaâ when i saw the full images.
very beautiful renders mate, i especially like the snow one. and thank you for the gif breakdowns, astounding, very astounding.
Hey guys! Iâve been flat out at work so I havenât been able to follow up on all the the nice comments and feedback from my last piece âlost creaturesâ but I really appreciate all the encouraging words! hopefully this weekend I will get to it, in the mean time I just wanted to share some new clay sketches that got featured in the latest 3Dcreative magazine, the Janitor even made it to the cover! so Iâm very excited! I will post some of the renders here and in my facebook page
Thanks for all the âlikesâon my facebook page iâm almost at 700, Iâm planing to do a nice tutorial for the â1000 likesâ mark!
Here is a new one: The Art Critic
